Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone has an opinion about whether it is smart to switch from VDSL to the Fibre 30 plan. Currently our finances don't permit the upgrade to Fibre 100.

In theory, the VDSL speeds are meant to range between 15-70 Mbps download and 5-10 Mbps upload, compared with the Fibre 30 which is up to 30 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up. This would seem to indicate that switching would be a sideways step at best, and a potential downgrade at worst.I don't think we ever get close to 30 Mbps download speed, but I don't test it very often. My gut instinct says that the Fibre plan should sit closer to 30 and also be more reliably fast than VDSL is, plus changing to fibre will allow a much easier switch to faster speeds at some point in the future.

Most of the problems with speed are likely to be related to internal wiring issues. Read this discussion to find out more about this. Your ISP is not intentionally slowing you down today (unless you are on a managed plan). Also if this is the school holidays it's likely you will notice slower than usual speed due to more users online.

A master splitter is required for VDSL2 and in most cases will improve speeds on DSL connections. Regular disconnections can be a monitored alarm or a set top box trying to connect. If there's an alarm connected to your line even if you don't have an alarm contract it may still try to connect so it's worth checking.